Car-step.



J. TISGH'LER an oI HENKLBIN. GAR STEP.

APPLICATION FILED DEG. 5, 1908.

melma sept. 28, i909;

JOHN TISHLR AND @TTU HENKLEXN,

GE' EAST PRTCHESTER, CIINECTICUT.'

assess,

Specification of Letters atent.

Patented Sept.. 28, t9..

Application mea December s, isos. serial no. 465,044.

States7 and residing at East lortchester, in'

the county of Fairlield and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Car-Steps, of which the following is a specification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

rl`his invention relates to car steps, and it consists in the addition to the ordinary steps of a car of asuppleinental bottom step which is mounted in such manner that .it may be projected for use when desired or withdrawn beneath the other steps when its use is not necessary.

The ste s of railway cars ordinarily construct/e are so high that it is ditlicult to get into a car unless there is a raised platform the station or stations, but with my improvement this difficulty is avoided by theuse of a supplemental bottom step which may be projected for use when there is no raised platform and withdrawn when 'there is, or when the supplemental step is not required. f f

The invention is :fully disclosed in the following specification, of which the accompanying drawing,r forni a part, in which the separate parts or' our improvement are designated by suitable reference characters in each of the views, and in which 5 Figure l is a side view or" one end portion of a railway car provided with our im-` provement, Fig. 2 a section. on the line 2 2 of Fig. l, Fig. 3 a detail view at right angles to that of Fig. 2 and looking in the direction of the arrow ai, and ,-lfig. 4t a plan View of the supplemental step.

ln the drawing forming part of this specification we have represented at a, the end of a car provided with the usual steps a and platform a3, and in the practice of our invention we connect with the opposite sides of the frame work ot the steps hangers i') in which our supplemental step c is mounted. The supplemental step, in the form of construction shown, consists of a frame c2, the

Vside portions of which are passed through keepers b2 at the bottom of the hangers and the frame c2 is provided with a body, board or similar device 03 which constitutes the step proper, and which is, in the form of construction shown, placed c on transverse members n* connected with the front and back members olithe ijranie o2. rlhe frame cz is also provided, in the forni of construction shown, with an oit-set member c5., and

secured on the plut-form o3 is a keeper al through which is passeda vertical rod c provided at its low end with an arm e having a downwardly directed yoke-shaped member c between the side portions of which thev oli-set part c or' the frame o2 of they supplemental step c passes.

llivoted to the top portion oi the rod e is 'a handle :member f by which said. rod may be manipulated, and in practice the suppleinental s yep c may bra-projected for use by raising the arm )c into the position shown in dotted lines in liig. 3 and turning the rod e in one. direction, and withdrawn beneath the main steps of the car when not desired for use by turning the rod e in the opposite direction.

Our improvement is not limited to the means herein shown and described for projecting and withdrawing the supplemental step c, and any suitable device or devices may be employed for this purpose.

Having fully described' our invention, what we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination with the main steps of a car of hangers connected with the side por tions thereof, a *forwardly and backwardly movable step mounted between said hangers and beneath the main steps and provided at its rear edge with a transverse member, and a rod passing vertically through the platform ot' the car and provided at its lower end with an angular arm movable on said transverse member, whereby the turning of said rod will move said step outwardly or inwardly according to the direction in which said rod is turned.

ln testimony that we claim the foregoing as our invention we have signed our names 3 in presence of the subscribingwitnesses this Zith day of December 1908.

JOHN TISCHLER. OTTO HENKLEN. YWitnesses A. R. ArrLEMAN. C. ll. Munita/livr. 

